Matthew Rettino
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Matthew Rettino
@matthewrettino.bsky.social
Posting about 110 stories in The Weird. 💀 #WeirdFictionChallenge.

Poetry chapbook Pilgrimages 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 out now. Author in NewMyths.com, Lantern Magazine. Interviewer, blogger. Odyssey '16, Codex. He/him. 🇨🇦

📬 https://buttondown.com/MatthewRettino (free story)
I think Elon’s brain went: Oates - Oats - Oatmeal - that’s it, sawdust!
November 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Thanks! I hope you enjoy the story.
November 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It does feel tempting sometimes to evoke that weird fic atmosphere and let it stand in for a resolution. I wonder if there's a teachable way to write good dream logic when it comes down to it.
November 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I had no idea that used to exist even though I‘ve walked around there quite often.
October 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I also wrote about Tanith Lee's story "Yellow and Red." Reportedly, Gaiman stole his idea of the Endless from Lee without properly crediting her.

If you prefer to read my Lee post, you can do so here.

It's about spilled whiskey revealing disturbing creatures in black & white photographs...
Weird #89: “Yellow and Red” by Tanith Lee (1998)
In which a rational man finds himself haunted by a spirit revealed by spilled spirits
matthewrettino.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM